Introducing data, CARE, and FAIR

Introducing the data

We will use the OpenNahele forest inventory plot data (Craven et al. 2018)

Introducing the data


  • Open as in open source, open access
  • Nahele as in forest ma ka ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi

What does using ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi in the name indicate?

Introducing the data

We will also use data from

These data have metadata

README_for_OpenNahele_Tree_Data.txt

Column label Column description
Island Island name
PlotID Unique numeric identifier for each plot
Study Brief name of study
Plot_area Plot area in m2
Longitude Longitude of plot in decimal degrees; WGS84 coordinate system
Latitude Latitude of plot in decimal degrees; WGS84 coordinate system
Year Year in which plot data was collected
Census Numeric identifier for each census
Tree_ID Unique numeric identifier for each individual
Scientific_name Genus and species of each individual following TPL v. 1.1
Family Family of each individual following TPL v. 1.1
Angiosperm Binary variable (1 = yes, 0 = no) indicating whether an individual is classified as an angiosperm following APG III
Monocot Binary variable (1 = yes, 0 = no) indicating whether an individual is classified as a monocot following APG III
Native_Status Categorical variable (‘native’, ‘alien’, ‘uncertain’) indicating alien status of each individual following Wagner et al. (2005)
Cultivated_Status Binary variable (1 = yes, 0 = no, NA = not applicable) indicating if species is cultivated following PIER
Abundance Number of individuals (all = 1)
Abundance_ha Abundance of each individual on a per hectare basis
DBH_cm Diameter at 1.3 m (DBH) for each individual; NA indicates that size was not measured, but was classified by size class

These data have metadata

README_for_plot_climate.txt

Column label Column description
PlotID Unique numeric identifier for each plot
lon Longitude of plot in decimal degrees; WGS84 coordinate system
lat Latitude of plot in decimal degrees; WGS84 coordinate system
evapotrans_annual_mm Actual annual evapotranspiration in mm
avbl_energy_annual_wm2 Annual available energy in W/m^2
cloud_freq_annual Annual cloud frequency in days/year
ndvi_annual Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
rain_annual_mm Annual rain fall in mm
avg_temp_annual_c Annual average temperature in celsius

These data have metadata

README_for_hii_geo.txt

Column label Column description
PlotID Unique numeric identifier for each plot
lon Longitude of plot in decimal degrees; WGS84 coordinate system
lat Latitude of plot in decimal degrees; WGS84 coordinate system
hii Human impact index
age_yr Geologic substrate age in years before present
elev_m Elevation in meters

Working with the data

We will not go into visualizing and numerically describing the data just yet—that will be saved as exercises for getting (re-)acquainted with R.

Working with the data

Biocultural dimensions

Biocultural dimensions

Plants are kin: He Kumulipo + nā moʻolelo

Kumulipo - Ipo Nihipali

Hāloa - Maggie T. Sutrov

Biocultural dimensions

Lāʻau lapaʻau and ethnobotany

Hawaiian ethnobotany database built largely on the work of esteemed ʻŌiwi scholar Isabella Aiona Abbott (1992)

Biocultural dimensions

ʻŌiwi geographies

Wahi pana

e.g. Puʻu Pueo

Wao

source: Winter et al. (2018)

Ecological questions we’ll consider

First: A thought on whose knowledge counts as science

source: Gon III, Tom, and Woodside (2018)

Ecological questions we’ll consider

  • How have ecology and evolution played out across the multi-million year chronosequence of the pae ʻāina to shape differences in biodiversity across and within islands (investigated, for example, by Gillespie 2016; Rominger et al. 2016)?
  • How have human impacts and climatic variables modulated biodiversity (investigated, for example, by Lim et al. 2021; Hutchins et al. 2023)
  • Can data on human impacts and climate help us understand how invasive/non-native species occupy ecosystems (investigated, for example, by Blackburn et al. 2011; Fortini et al. 2013)

References

Abbott, Isabella Aiona. 1992. Lāʻau Hawaiʻi: Traditional Hawaiian Uses of Plants. Bishop Museum Press.
Blackburn, Tim M, Petr Pyšek, Sven Bacher, James T Carlton, Richard P Duncan, Vojtěch Jarošı́k, John RU Wilson, and David M Richardson. 2011. “A Proposed Unified Framework for Biological Invasions.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution 26 (7): 333–39.
Craven, Dylan. 2019. “Dylancraven/Hawaii_diversity: Beta.” Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3250638.
Craven, Dylan, Tiffany M Knight, Kasey E Barton, Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, Susan Cordell, Christian P Giardina, Thomas W Gillespie, Rebecca Ostertag, Lawren Sack, and Jonathan M Chase. 2018. “OpenNahele: The Open Hawaiian Forest Plot Database.” Biodiversity Data Journal, no. 6: e28406.
Fortini, Lucas B, Jonathan Price, James Jacobi, Adam Vorsino, Jeff Burgett, Kevin W Brinck, Fred Amidon, et al. 2013. “A Landscape-Based Assessment of Climate Change Vulnerability for All Native Hawaiian Plants.” University of Hawaii.
Gillespie, Rosemary G. 2016. “Island Time and the Interplay Between Ecology and Evolution in Species Diversification.” Evolutionary Applications 9 (1): 53–73.
Gon III, Samuel M, Stephanie L Tom, and Ulalia Woodside. 2018. “ʻĀina Momona, Honua Au Loli—Productive Lands, Changing World: Using the Hawaiian Footprint to Inform Biocultural Restoration and Future Sustainability in Hawai ‘i.” Sustainability 10 (10): 3420.
Hutchins, Leke, Ann Mc Cartney, Natalie Graham, Rosemary Gillespie, and Aidee Guzman. 2023. “Arthropods Are Kin: Operationalizing Indigenous Data Sovereignty to Respectfully Utilize Genomic Data from Indigenous Lands.” Molecular Ecology Resources 25 (2): e13822.
Lim, Jun Ying, Jairo Patiño, Suzuki Noriyuki, Luis Cayetano, Rosemary G Gillespie, and Henrik Krehenwinkel. 2021. “Semi-Quantitative Metabarcoding Reveals How Climate Shapes Arthropod Community Assembly Along Elevation Gradients on Hawaii Island.” Molecular Ecology 31 (5): 1416–29.
McLean, Jared, Sean B Cleveland, Michael Dodge, Matthew P Lucas, Ryan J Longman, Thomas W Giambelluca, and Gwen A Jacobs. 2023. “Building a Portal for Climate Data—Mapping Automation, Visualization, and Dissemination.” Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 35 (18): e6727.
Rominger, AJ, KR Goodman, JY Lim, EE Armstrong, LE Becking, GM Bennett, MS Brewer, et al. 2016. “Community Assembly on Isolated Islands: Macroecology Meets Evolution.” Global Ecology and Biogeography 25 (7): 769–80.
Winter, Kawika B, Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Mehana Blaich Vaughan, Alan M Friedlander, Mike H Kido, A Nāmaka Whitehead, Malia KH Akutagawa, Natalie Kurashima, Matthew Paul Lucas, and Ben Nyberg. 2018. “The Moku System: Managing Biocultural Resources for Abundance Within Social-Ecological Regions in Hawaiʻi.” Sustainability 10 (10): 3554.